Welcome to the Documentation Centre of the International Council on Monuments and Sites!

The ICOMOS Documentation Centre specializes in cultural heritage, historic monuments and sites, their conservation and restoration, with 40.000 titles concerning most countries in the world, 400 periodicals received regularly by exchange, 25.000 slides, photographs, and plans.

The ICOMOS Documentation Centre is the primary repository for the original documentation of the cultural and mixed (natural and cultural) properties that have been inscribed on the UNESCOWorld Heritage List since 1978. These documents constitute its most important collection.